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Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud (born 1968 in Smara) is a former police chief of the Polisario Front, and political dissident.
He was abducted in 1979, and deported to Algeria.[citation needed] He studied physics, and Police officer school in Algiers in 1991.[citation needed]
In 2010, following a family visit to the Moroccan-controlled part of Western Sahara, he announced on August 9, he wanted to open dialogue within the POLISARIO, on the Moroccan autonomy initiative for settling the conflict in Western Sahara.[1] On August 30, 2010, he attempted to return to the Tindouf camps crossing the highly militarized Moroccan wall.[2][3] He was detained by Sahrawi People's Liberation Army troops on September 21 at the liberated territories, and accused of high treason.[4][5]
M. Brahim Ghali, ambassador of the Sahrawi Arabic Democratic Republic in Algiers, described Mustapha Salma as a traitor.[6]
On October 8, 2010, there was a protest about the disappearance at the Embassy of Algeria in Washington, D.C.[7] In October 2010, there was a report of his release.[8][9] In December 2010, he was released to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at the Western Sahara-Mauritania border.[10][11] Since his release, Sidi Mouloud had stayed in Mauritania, not returning to Morocco or the Western Sahara, and he had not made any declaration.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Yazid Alilat. "Sahara Occidental : L'autodétermination et rien d'autre". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
- ^ "Protest at Algerian Embassy: Where is Western Sahara Dissident Sidi Mouloud?". Moroccoboard.com. 2010-10-04. Archived from the original on 2011-04-29. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
- ^ "Nine Days and Counting... Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud Still Not Free". Reuters. 2010-10-15. Archived from the original on 2012-09-10. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
- ^ "L'affaire Ould Sidi Mouloud : suite et fin ? | Jeuneafrique.com - le premier site d'information et d'actualité sur l'Afrique". Jeuneafrique.com. Archived from the original on 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2011-06-19.
- ^ "Polisario releases detained former security chief" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Al-Arabiya, Adel al-Zubairi, 02 December 2010
- ^ "Ould Sidi Mouloud free in Mauritania". Magharebia.com. 2010-12-02. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-06-19.